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India’s wholesale inflation rose to 3.88% in March — the highest in more than three years — breaking a six-month run of subdued readings through December 2025, as higher prices of crude petroleum, natural gas, basic metals, and manufactured food and non-food items pushed up costs, according to commerce ministry data released on Wednesday. Wholesale price inflation stood at 2.05% in March 2025. Since July last year, wholesale prices had either contracted or grown by less than 1%. The trend began reversing in January, when inflation came in at 1.81% following two consecutive months of deflation in October and November. WPI inflation had risen further to 2.13% in February. Inflation in primary articles — which include cereals, paddy, wheat, vegetables, milk, eggs, meat and fish, along with minerals and crude oil — stood at 6.36% in March, up from 0.76% in March 2025